Sylvania



(No Model.)

E. I. MILLER.

MANUFAGTURB 0F WHISK BROOMS.

No. 374902. Patented Deo. 13, 1887.

WITNESSES: Z. 512924,76#

R O Tl N E V N UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD I. MILLER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF THREE-FOURTHS TO CHARLES W'. SOHVARTZ, ALBERT GRAFF, AUGUSTUS ROSS, FRANK Gr. ROGERS, AND HARRYl P. SCHWARTZ, ALL OF PHILADELPHIA, PENN- SYLVANIA.

MANUFACTURE OF WHISK-BROOMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 374,902, dated December 13, 1887.

Application filed November 15, 1886. Serial No. 2l8,857. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD I. MILLER, a citizen of the United States, residing inthe city of New York, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of VhiskBrooms; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of my invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to ro which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being vhad to the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention has reference to the construcot' a whisk-broom which is durable, useful, and salable, and yet which may be manufactured at an exceedingly low cost. This cheapness is the result of three things-first, the saving of material; second, the simplicity of 2o the manufacture of the component parts; third, the device by which the parts are all fastened together with a single wire.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents the whisk as completed. Fig. 2

.25 is a sectional View of the body apart from the handle and cup. Fig. 8 is a side view of the body before the bers are turned down. Fig. 4 is a section ot' the handle and cup through the plane of shortest diameter. Fig. 5' is an 3o end view of the body as shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a section similar to that shown in Fig. 4, but exhibiting a different arrangement of the wire.

The whisk consists of three parts-the body A, the cup B, and the handle C. The cup and handle are best made of some light and easi1yturned Wood. The material, however, is not essential. The body is made of broom-corn or other iibrous material. The proper quantity of this is bound very tightly together at the stub end by the metal strap a, which is secured and held in shape by the rivet b, the mass being pounded into an oblong form. The edges of the metal strap are turned over inward, so as to form an interior hem along both edges, as shown in Fig. 2, a. This is necessary to prevent the exterior fibers from slipping out, owing to the smoothness of the metal surface with which they are in contact. 5o The straws are cut oiI short immediately above the strap. The broom ends are then parted in the center and bent back and over the core formed by the strap and the stub ends, forming a hollow body, as shown in Fig. 2. In this shape the body is thrust within the cup B, which forms the shoulder of the whisk. The cup is hollowed out in the shape indicated by the dotted lines of Fig. l and tits closely upon the upper end of the body. A wire, c, passes through a hole in the handle at the top of that part of the handle which tits into the cup. The handle is placed in its hole in the cup, with this wire at right angles to the long diameter of the cup, and is pounded in, so as to key the wire into the cup, thus preventing any revolution of the handle. The ends of the wire are then bent down and into the body, clamping it just below the core. This secures both the handle and the body firmly to the cup. 70

The wires may pass outside of the cup, as shown inFig. 4, or they may be drawn down through the hole of the cup alongside of that part of the handle which tits into the cup, as shown in Fig. 6. In this latter form the wire is hidden from view, and I therefore prefer it on account of its greater neatness. One moderately-strong wire thus serves to fasten all the different parts together.

I do not claim conning and shaping the body by thrustingits upper end into a wooden cup, which is part of a previous invention of mine for which an application for Letters Patent is now pending, tiled JunelO, 1886, Serial No. 204,693.

Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, in a whisk-broom, of the body A, the cup B, and the handle C, all secured by the wire c, which passes through the handle and has its ends clamped into the body, substantially as described.

2. A whisk-broom in which the body is made separately from the handle by fastening the stub ends of a bundle of corn together by a metal strip and turning the ends down over the core thus formed.

EDIVARD I. MILLER.

Witnesses: Y

MARI; WILKs COLLET, HENRY N. PAUL, Jr. 

